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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
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You and I have differing definitions of success. ๐
It's not my definition either, just riffing on a common trope.
Sometimes people who are considered successful at something are bad at teaching it, especially when they faced lower barriers to entry, whether for socioeconomic reasons or because the landscape has changed. A person who entered the workforce 10 or 20 years ago wouldn't really be able to give good advice for finding an entry-level position in today's job market. Another classic example is boomers telling millennials to work hard and buy a house.
Sometimes it is because a talent comes so naturally to someone that they don't know what it's like to have to struggle to learn it. Can you imagine taking music lessons from Mozart? He'd be like "Just play it! What do you mean you can't?"
I know I could never tutor anyone in math. People used to ask me to explain how to solve something and I couldn't comprehend what they didn't understand about it, so I didn't know how to start. I would just show them how to solve it, and they'd be like "all you did was solve it, that didn't make things any clearer." Well then I don't know how to help ๐คทโโ๏ธ